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Bad News for Blake's 7
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Re: Bad News for Blake\'s 7
But... you can't necessarily equate quality with opinion.
Paul Darrow will of course get the sympathy and backing of fans. But, does he have the experience? Does he know what is necessarily good, and what will work? Or is he perhaps just holding on to sentementality.
But... you can't necessarily equate quality with opinion.
Paul Darrow will of course get the sympathy and backing of fans. But, does he have the experience? Does he know what is necessarily good, and what will work? Or is he perhaps just holding on to sentementality.
Re: Bad News for Blake\'s 7
Maybe... but then maybe some of them care about the quality too. It's very easy to paint them all as not giving a damn.
TNT/JMS is a good example... I heart TNT quite reviled around B5 waters, because JMS said they were awkward. But they gave us season five of B5, 3 telemovies and 13 eps of Crusade. Heavens forbid that JMS is just strongwilled.
All I'm saying is that the more fan-liked sides (the JMS and Pauls of this world) will immediately be invoked as the good guys, and the evil dollar-swindling "suits" as bad guys. I imagine it isn't quite that clear cut and, more to the point, we can't make those distinctions without hearing both sides of the story.
Maybe... but then maybe some of them care about the quality too. It's very easy to paint them all as not giving a damn.
TNT/JMS is a good example... I heart TNT quite reviled around B5 waters, because JMS said they were awkward. But they gave us season five of B5, 3 telemovies and 13 eps of Crusade. Heavens forbid that JMS is just strongwilled.
All I'm saying is that the more fan-liked sides (the JMS and Pauls of this world) will immediately be invoked as the good guys, and the evil dollar-swindling "suits" as bad guys. I imagine it isn't quite that clear cut and, more to the point, we can't make those distinctions without hearing both sides of the story.
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Re: Bad News for Blake\'s 7
Anne McCaffrey also had a deal fall through with some station (it may have been ABC, I can't remember now). And I think there have been others.
I think almost all of modern television is a waste of time, that is why I am watching so little of it. So when I hear these things I admit, I do think "another potentially interesting idea shot into the toilet here".
If I actually liked and watched some of what these "tv executives" were putting on the air, I might feel differently. But every time I try out a new show, I find myself pretty horrified.
Anne McCaffrey also had a deal fall through with some station (it may have been ABC, I can't remember now). And I think there have been others.
I think almost all of modern television is a waste of time, that is why I am watching so little of it. So when I hear these things I admit, I do think "another potentially interesting idea shot into the toilet here".
If I actually liked and watched some of what these "tv executives" were putting on the air, I might feel differently. But every time I try out a new show, I find myself pretty horrified.
Re: Bad News for Blake\'s 7
It wouldn't surprise me if some of the difficulty is coming from Terry Nation's estate, who are quite stringent in the use of his copyrights. They have recently denied the BBC the right to air any Doctor Who stories featuring the Daleks (a creation of Nation) and forbid any licensed publishers to use them in print, unless it is written by John Peel.
That's a bummer, though. It would have been nice to see an updated version of B7.
It wouldn't surprise me if some of the difficulty is coming from Terry Nation's estate, who are quite stringent in the use of his copyrights. They have recently denied the BBC the right to air any Doctor Who stories featuring the Daleks (a creation of Nation) and forbid any licensed publishers to use them in print, unless it is written by John Peel.
That's a bummer, though. It would have been nice to see an updated version of B7.
